In the memoir by Elie Wiesel, there are many reasons why he wrote this. One reason why he wrote this book was to leave behind a legacy of words and memories to help prevent history from repeating itself again. Elie had survived the Holocaust and wanted to share history with this great story. Many people said that he had survived in order to write this text. He also wrote this to show people what it was like to encounter death and knowledge of evil as an adolescent. He wrote this touching book in order to understand madness, the immense fighting, and terrifying torture that had come to the world. Elie Wiesel’s writing showed the world what it was like to live in crazy mankind.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Topics to Know
Questions
Answers
Nazi Propaganda
Who is Joseph Goebbels?
List three things the Nazis did to ensurethat their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
Joseph Goebbels was in charge of propaganda and was the Minister of Propaganda and National Enlightenment.
The Nazis ensured that their views were shown in the most persuasive manner possible by ensuring that nobody in Germany could read or see anything damaging to their reputation. They were sure to be successful with the SS and Gestapo. They also set up the Reich Chamber of Commerce in 1933 that dealt with literature, art, music, radio and film.
Kristallnacht/ The Final Solution/ Wannsee Conference
The untold numbers of broken windows and synagogues destroyed during the pogroms. It means “Night of Broken Glass”. This happened on November 9-10, 1938.
The code name for the physical annihilation of the Jews.
The Victims
Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
Gypsies, people with disabilities, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Afro- Germans, Jehovah’s Witnesses and homosexuals.
The Nazis believed that superior races had the right to exterminate the inferior ones. The Nazis used media and democracy to advance world power. He later would kill or burn people of these inferior groups.
The Ghettos
Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.
Closed ghettos- closed off by barbed wire, and fences. Could not leave. Located in German occupied Poland and Soviet Union.
Open ghettos- had no walls or fences, restrictions on leaving. Located in German occupied Poland, Soviet Union, Transnistria and Ukraine.
Destruction ghettos- tightly sealed, between 2-6 weeks. One would be deported and shot. Mostly all Jews. They were located in German occupied Soviet Union and Hungary.
Life in the ghettos were harsh and forced people to live under miserable conditions.
24 defendants. They represented a cross- section of German diplomatic, economic, political and military leadership.
The orders from the Nuremberg trials set important precedents. The orders were not a legitimate defense for criminal acts.
Assingment 3: Images of Night
Auschwitz
Auschwitz
Horrific and cruel
Traumatizing, agonizing, and terrifying
Like a train to death and as a sentence on death row
A bothered beehive
Killing
Before eyes of tears
Table of Contents
Kaitlyn G. Night Assignments
Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
Elie Wiesel
In the memoir by Elie Wiesel, there are many reasons why he wrote this. One reason why he wrote this book was to leave behind a legacy of words and memories to help prevent history from repeating itself again. Elie had survived the Holocaust and wanted to share history with this great story. Many people said that he had survived in order to write this text. He also wrote this to show people what it was like to encounter death and knowledge of evil as an adolescent. He wrote this touching book in order to understand madness, the immense fighting, and terrifying torture that had come to the world. Elie Wiesel’s writing showed the world what it was like to live in crazy mankind.Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm
The Nazis ensured that their views were shown in the most persuasive manner possible by ensuring that nobody in Germany could read or see anything damaging to their reputation. They were sure to be successful with the SS and Gestapo. They also set up the Reich Chamber of Commerce in 1933 that dealt with literature, art, music, radio and film.
Wannsee Conference
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/
Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?
What was the Final Solution?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477
The code name for the physical annihilation of the Jews.
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457
CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”
The Nazis believed that superior races had the right to exterminate the inferior ones. The Nazis used media and democracy to advance world power. He later would kill or burn people of these inferior groups.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
What was life like in the ghettos?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445
Open ghettos- had no walls or fences, restrictions on leaving. Located in German occupied Poland, Soviet Union, Transnistria and Ukraine.
Destruction ghettos- tightly sealed, between 2-6 weeks. One would be deported and shot. Mostly all Jews. They were located in German occupied Soviet Union and Hungary.
Life in the ghettos were harsh and forced people to live under miserable conditions.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144
What were the conditions?
What different types of extermination were performed?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145
Death camps were meant to kill them when deported.
The conditions were miserable. Most people died from starvation, exhaustion and exposure.
Many. But the worst were the gas chambers. People were led to showers where harmful gases killed them.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131
What did Hitler do near the end of the war?
How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143
What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142
Surrendered.
24 defendants. They represented a cross- section of German diplomatic, economic, political and military leadership.
The orders from the Nuremberg trials set important precedents. The orders were not a legitimate defense for criminal acts.
Assingment 3: Images of Night
Auschwitz
Auschwitz
Horrific and cruel
Traumatizing, agonizing, and terrifying
Like a train to death and as a sentence on death row
A bothered beehive
Killing
Before eyes of tears
Assingment 4: